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But in this strong and athletic frame lived a feverish and sickly soul that was dominated and tormented by a morbid craving for love and sympathy: "that imperative need of love which is killing me...." To love, to be loved he would give up all for that.
After concealing the letter, Rosalie went downstairs to accompany her mother to Madame de Chavoncourt's; and as long as the endless evening lasted, she was tormented by remorse and scruples.
And even it seemed that I too was not a reasonable creature, but only an animal tormented with some strange disorder in its brain which sent it to wander alone, like a sheep stricken with gid. This is a mood, however, that comes to me now, I thank God, more rarely.
Till then, Elmore had been dumbly tormented in his sombre moods with the solution of a problem at which his imagination vainly toiled, the problem of how some day she and Ehrhardt should meet again and retrieve the error of the past for him.
It tells you that you must be tormented hereafter in a way only to be made intelligible by the image of eternal fires pretty strong, we must all allow unless you comply with certain conditions, which it pretends are so easy that it is a positive pleasure to embrace and perform them; and yet, for the life of you, you can't physically can't do either.
Yet was not the battle so over-light but that I slew and hurt divers of them ere they got me under and stripped me and bound my hands and tormented me, after the manner that the devils shall do with them when they shall go to their reward. And now I may not even tell the years of my abiding in the desert, how many they be. But I pray thee let us on more swiftly yet.
Physicians would have given a name to his mental and physical condition. He had heard these names often applied to men the strain of whose lives had been like the strain of his own, and had left them as it had left him jaded, joyless, breaking things. Some of them had been broken and had died or were dragging out bruised and tormented days in their own homes or in mad-houses.
She denied herself all this with an agony of spirit, groaning not only over their earthly separation, thinking not only of her daughter's present dangers, but tormented also by reflections as to dangers and possible separations in another world. But she knew she was right. She knew at least that were she to act otherwise there would be upon her conscience the weight of sin.
"These were the thoughts that tormented me during the first fortnight after my return from the miserable journey to Winchester; these were the thoughts for ever revolving in my tired brain while I waited for tidings from the detective. "During all that time it never once occurred to me that there was any chance, however remote, of Joseph Wilmot's escape from his pursuer.
You've tormented me you've led me on offering me everything and nothing at all. It's been a spider-and-fly business from first to last and I've never for one moment been ignorant of that and I've never for one moment been able to withstand it." He turned round deliberately.
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